09.02.2021, Donetsk.
Russian-US relations will deteriorate while an uninterrupted dialogue continues with external respectability, said political scientist, leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in Donetsk on January 28 during The Topic program on the Union channel.
The dialogue between the USSR and the US at the highest level has never been interrupted, even during the Cuban missile crisis, reminded Kurginyan. He is confident that relations with the US will always continue. In the process, both sides will “be making smiley faces and declaring statements in support of peace in the world and cooperation… peace-friendship-bubble gum.”
“But what about happens ‘under the skin of the Statue of Liberty’? There is such an expression. What will be underneath that respectability? This is a separate issue, and it seems to me that there are all reasons to expect that underneath that respectability there will be more and more deterioration in the mutual relations,” said Kurginyan.
If the deterioration in relations reaches a point of direct confrontation, then it “will almost be the end of times”, since the dialogue between the two nuclear superpowers is a necessary condition for preserving life on Earth, noted the political scientist.
In 1968 the Soviet author Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote the poem “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty.” There, the poet picks up on Aleksandr Pushkin’s thought about how disgusting cynicism can be and compares it to the modern cynicism of the US democracy, where “education and freedom are next to slavery.” In particular, Yevtushenko points to the “Vietnamese mothers” and writes the following verses about the famous US icon (translated here in prose):
Under the skin of the Statue of Liberty
There is no heart
She seems to be hanging, bloody –
with bulging eyes! –
like a gutted cow –
on an invisible hook.
And the masses are climbing up,
the masses are longing …
Oh, what a holy lie!
I was inside Liberty.
Terrifying. She is hollow!
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
